In this video John Crispin from Fon shows how a Fonera can obtain WiFi from a 3G modem. If you are a developer and would like to write apps for the new Fonera 2.0 pls write to iurgi@fon.com.

We’re growing really fast in Portugal, mostly thanks to the agreement FON reached with Zon, the biggest cable internet and TV provider in Portugal. October 18th became another landmark for FON, when we officially launched a WiFi density project in Campo de Ourique, a district in Lisbon with its own unique atmosphere. Without being too [...]

Next Tuesday at 10:30 I am hosting a Fonero brunch in Berlin. The purpose of this brunch is to brainstorm on how we can grow Fon in Germany so there´s more free WiFi available to Foneros. Until now UK and France have grown considerably more than Germany and it is my interest to [...]

The BT FON Facebook application, called Battle of The Fans, is doing very well and is now one of the most popular UK focused applications, with over 31,000 users and more then 7,000 waves generated. It’s part of a very successful marketing campaign that started with The World’s Biggest Mexican Wave initiative.

From next year Chrysler, the third-largest automaker in the States, will provide most of their Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep models with a “uconnect” system that will give the vehicles a 3G cellular Internet connection shared throughout the car over Wi-Fi. This, as a similar service I reviewed last March, proves how WiFi keeps [...]

I’m very glad to announce BT FON, the WiFi community we built with BT, has now more than 100,000 members in the UK. This is a great confirmation of how FON is great for telcos and ISPs and how fast Fon can grow thanks to deals like the ones with BT, Neuf or the [...]

I am glad to announce a FON has just signed an agreement with Comstar, the main telecom operator in Russia, a partnership similar to those we have with BT in the UK and in other countries with other operators.
Comstar and FON will jointly develop a Wi-Fi internet access network in Russia, initially focusing on Comstar’s [...]

We are proud to announce that the BT FON Community we built with our partner BT is the winner in the Most Innovative Wireless Broadband category at the Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards 2008. Over 210 entries were submitted and just 7 winners were selected in 7 different categories: alongside BT FON, our friends at Fring [...]

Together with BT we created BTFon and we develop campaigns like this with Peter Crouch. In this video you can see the FON team doing the Mexican Wave… with a style of its own.

What’s important with this is the great number of foneros we got thanks to BTFon. Unfortunately I can’t share how many of [...]

FON Japan and Seven Seas Techworks, a company that develops interactive web services and content delivery platforms, are collaborating to provide an educational solution called “Student Pass for iPod touch” to universities in Japan.
Students will get an iPod Touch to access content and services like their class schedule, study materials, attendance management system. They [...]